SimonJohns's Q&A profile

• Visual C# Move to a next window after pressing a button

  Hi, Basically, the title says it all. How can i move to a next window after pressing a button. I'm trying to make a calculator. Thanks in advance! Hi, Thanks for your reply. If i do it that way, does that mean i have to make another project in order to get the second form Or can i make a second form in the same project Thanks in advance! ...Show All

• SQL Server Performance tuning issues

  I have built a solution which runs for two hours on a server with 4CPU 2GHz each and 2GB of RAM on windows 2000 server (CPU utilization almost 70% and almost out of RAM). I moved the two source databases and the solution to a new box runing 8 xeon's at 3GHz each and 16GB of RAM running widows 2003 server 32bit and it still runs for 2 hours (CPU utilization 10% and ample RAM left). I was expecting it to run much faster. So I started exploring the performance tuning features in SSIS and started tweaking the following: Control Flow: DefaultBufferMaxRows: Based on row size and buffer size, calculated the max rows. DefaultBufferSize: Set this to max 100MB DataFlow Destination: Rows Per Batch: Set this to equal to the numbe of ...Show All

• Visual C# Is there any function for converting Currency ( Numbers to Words )

  Hi groups, I need some idea/ways are there for creating currency conversion. I mean if i give inout as numbers ( say 1500 ) is should convert into text as [ One thousand five hundred only. ] Hope someone already implemented this type of functions for reports etc..pls share your logic and code if any. Maheshkumar.R wrote: Hi groups, I need some idea/ways are there for creating currency conversion. I mean if i give inout as numbers ( say 1500 ) is should convert into text as [ One thousand five hundred only. ] Hope someone already implemented this type of functions for reports etc..pls share your logic and code if any. ...Show All

• SQL Server Basic SQL: Multiple AND/OR nightmare in SELECT statement

  This is more of a basic SQL question rather than anything specific for T-SQL, but I assume someone here can help me... I have a problem with properly combining a lot of AND and ORs in a SELECT statement in a stored procedure in order to get the desired results. The problem is that I want to have all results that fullfill all of the supplie d conditions: InstitutionCode, CollectionCode, ScientificName, Locality (unless they are null, hence 'coalesce') and the Parentid, that can be in one of eight columns. SELECT * FROM QueryView WHERE InstitutionCode = COALESCE(@museum, InstitutionCode) AND CollectionCode = COALESCE(@collection, CollectionCode) AND ScientificName LIKE '%' + @binomen + '%' AND Locality LIKE ' ...Show All

• Visual Studio Configuring ISA for VS2005 Debugging

  I have developers using VS 2005 who connect to a development environment using VPN. The development environment exists behind ISA 2006. How do I configure the ISA to enable a developer who connects using a VPN to debug a webservice I've installed the debugging tool from VS 2005 on the database and SharePoint Server. Any assistance and guidance will be appreciated. Have you tried looking at the support options for ISA here http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/prodinfo/default.mspx If you can provide further details on what you have tried would be helpful. Thank you, Liz ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Cannot download VB Express

  I just recently reformatted my computer and cannot seem to download VB Express from the microsoft website. No matter what link I click they all come up errors. I have been getting this alot recently with most any microsoft download. I tried the autoinstaller and the manual iso and img links and none of them work. Is there another place where it can be downloaded I did have it on disc but cannot seem to find it. Thank you, Troy L I called comcast about the problem and their explanation was that microsoft sites required a powerful connection (not fast just strong). I do not know if this is true. Maybe someone from MS can comment. ...Show All

• Visual Basic not sure it this goes here or not

  I am using vs 205 team suite. I am at this point creating a crx app but everytime i try to save i get an error. An unhandled win32 exception occurred in devenv.exe[3612] the number changes, and then exits. when i restart and try to ope the project i get the same message on opening the project. How can i fix this I'm pretty sure the answer is no here but just to check, you're not running any custom downloaded hot fixes for the CLR are you If you don't know then the answer is no :) I've talked with a couple of people and it looks like this error is occurring because of a faulty COM interop call. Since you're not running any plugins, updates or patches I would guess this is because of a broken install. T ...Show All

• Visual C++ Marshal MSG Struct CopyMemory

       I have two projects one is a managed c#.NET application and the other is a win32 dll. I am trying to pass a MSG structure that was intercepted in global hook filter function in my unmanaged code, back to my managed code. ***Relavant code from managed project.           public IntPtr hMsg;           public MSG ThisMsg;            ...            // Pointer that will be sent to the unmanaged dll.             hMsg = Marshal.All ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System TF14043: An error occurred computing the delta. Not enough storage is available to process this command

  We're attempting to migrate a fairly sizeable SoruceSafe database into a dual-tier TFS server configuration using VSSConverter. After running analyze.exe, VSSConverter Analyze, then half-way through VSSConverter Migrate we start seeing errors in the EventLog. The app-tier server had been running for about 3 weeks, so we've restarted it and are starting a fresh VSSConverter Migrate. Searching for the win32 error "Not enough storage space is available" seems to indicate that it's run out of memory. However this is a Dual Xeon hyper-threaded box with 3.5Gb of memory and plenty of free disk space. The 2.0 Framework machine.config has <processModel autoConfig="true" /> Can you provide any clues as to wha ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development Blu-ray

  Does it bring bad luck to ask this on this forum :) Anyone knows of documentation or sites about BD-J mode, HDMV is a bit limited. Peter Torr - MSFT wrote: Speed and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen from Fox have BD-J support, but apparently they don't work very well on the Samsung player. I believe they work OK on the PLAYSTATION 3 and I'm not sure about the other players. [Added] Descent from Lionsgate also has BD-J, but fails to play in most players. I've checked out Descent from Lionsgate and it seems to work perfectly fine on PS3, I must say it's one of the most sophisticated menus developed in Java... I believe that still the hardware players fail to implement the fully functio ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Unable to Debug Unit Test

  Hello, I am relatively new to writing unit tests with VSTS and I have been unable to figure out how to get a test to run in Debug mode. I've set several breakpoints in the test and run it in debug mode, but none of the breakpoints gets hit - the test runs without stopping at a breakpoint. Is there a secret to getting this to work that I'm missing Thanks, Chuck Hello It is due to how unit test work. Remember a unit test is just a library that is loaded and run in mstest.exe. Thanks Brian [MSFT] Microsoft Developer Support This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ...Show All

• SQL Server Derived Column Transformation Editor Question

  Help... I'm having trouble coming up with a valid expression in my derived column transformation editor that tests the input column for NULL and responds something like this: if[message] isNull then "NA" else [message] where [message] is the input column. Thanks! ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System how i can add licensed user to tfs workgroup

  hi i have installed tfs for workgroup , But when I start adding the licensed users I found that it’s accept only accept 5 users What should I do We are Microsoft partner and I have TFS beta 3 refresh CD Should i install the tfs beta 3 and upgrade it Or should we buy the more licenses If yes how and how match Thank you if i install the TFS beta 3 and then update it using TFSUpgradePackageRTM.exe from http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/B/B/7BB60747-28BE-43AE-B97A-CFDE02CC7788/TFSUpgradePackageRTM.EXE what i will get ,A full version and another information we are a golden partner thank you   ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista Reading files from c:\program files.....odd behaviour

  I am getting some very wierd results whilst attempting to read settings from an .ini file located in the c:\program files folder. Firstly, the values being read back are not the value in the file and secondly if I delete the file (as an administrator) my application is still returning values from a ini file which doesn't exist anymore. This only occurs for standard users, if the app is run an administrator or has elevated permissions my app reads values from the file as expected and as you would expect reports the file is missing if it has been removed...all very nornal. So what is going on with the Standard user account...help....applications cannot read settings from .ini files which no longer exist! Anybody else experienced ...Show All

• SharePoint Products and Technologies Can i save my changes back to server

  Based on Unsupported Features in Excel Services I know I cannot author an Excel workbook using Excel Services. However I want to know more about it: If i make a changes to an excel workbook using Excel Services.Can i Save the changes back to original workbook on server Hi stswordman, Its a static property. I used a custom webpart that was deployed on the site I had the excel sheet published on and so it got the current context. The getfile url is the exact url of your published excel document.That was just the excel I was accessing.Copy and paste the url of the excel fil you have published. ...Show All